Where: Bahamas (22.8° N, 74.3° W: paleocoordinates 22.8° N, 74.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• The deposit containing the bird bones was a relatively hard stratum about one foot in thickness, buried under from six to twelve inches of sand. Contained ash and charcoal, many opercula of conch shells, some crude pottery, and a few bone artifacts and tortoiseshell fishhook. The bones seem fairly old, and are considered pre-Columbian though there is no definite criterion to establish their actual age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by F.G. Rainey, A. Armour in 1933-1934; reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: A. Wetmore. 1938. Bird remains from the West Indies. The Auk 55:51-55 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 145366: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Catalina Suarez-Gomez on 01.06.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

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